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The renowned Russian writer’s stories begin as they mean to go on – in terse sentences where characters, either stepping out of a provincial newspaper story, or else stepping out of a timeless nightmare, are bound up with a simple, human, horrifying act

The fifty stories in the Bulgarian writer’s short story collection, in an English translation by Kapka Kassabova, are so stuffed full of richness and laden with oddities that it is tempting to quote whole pages verbatim. It’s one of those rare books where every word feels like an essential part